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06 February 2023

Helping adolescents thrive toolkit

This publication, produced by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, has been developed to support the implementation of the WHO Guidelines on mental health promotive and preventive interventions for adolescents, released in 2020. The Toolkit includes a core set of evidence-informed strategies to promote and p...

06 February 2023

Guidelines on mental health promotive and preventive interventions for adolescents

The Guidelines on promotive and preventive mental health interventions for adolescents - Helping Adolescents thrive (HAT), provide evidence-informed recommendations on psychosocial interventions to promote mental health, prevent mental disorders, and reduce self-harm and other risk behaviours among adolescents. T...

05 November 2021

NADEL – A Friendly Chat*

Belgrade, Serbia, October 2021 - Jelena is doing a BA in Environmental Science. She volunteers on several projects and earns pocket money by babysitting. She is open and friendly, and it’s clear that she’s a mature and self-aware young person. However, Jelena’s childhood was not without challenges. She grew up in a group home for children without…

26 January 2018

Roma health mediators – empowering communities

Belgrade, Serbia – Five years ago, Roma health mediator Aleksandra Paunovic entered the home of the six-member Roma family Krasnici. The parents, Nadjija and Naser, expected help from her, and it soon became clear to the children that they would grow to love her, as they say, as an aunt. Djevahire, who is now thir...

Peers helping peers

The first floor of the health centre in Loznica is crowded with young people. The corridors are plastered with posters on healthy lifestyles, risks of unprotected sexual intercourse, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. In the waiting room in front of the Youth Counseling Service there are six young people...

02 February 2011

Bliss in the dark

In a small, cozy room four people are laughing and talking about common things. They seem pretty close to each other, like they have been friends for a long time. It looks like an ordinary atmosphere among friends, a chat over a cup of coffee in an early September afternoon in Belgrade, Serbia's capital. One of th...